About the Oberlin International Festival and Competition
	Guest Faculty Bios About the Oberlin International Festival and Competition Concert Schedule		Hans Boepple Pianist Hans Boepple has appeared as guest soloist with many distinguished American orchestras, among them the Denver, Long Beach, and Oakland symphonies, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Minnesota Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra. Also active in solo recital for more than 30 years, he has been listed on the Steinway International Artist Roster since 1982. Awarded first prize in the J.S. Bach International Competition (Washington, D.C.), Boepple’s other awards include six Coleman Chamber Music Awards (Los Angeles), the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition, and the MTNA National Collegiate Competition. National Public Radio and Voice of America have broadcast his performances, and he has recorded the complete Bagatelles by Beethoven for Orion Master Recordings. A former member of the piano faculty at Indiana University, Boepple has been professor of music at Santa Clara University since 1978 and chair of the music department since 1995. In demand as an adjudicator, lecturer, and master class clinician, he continues to balance his performance activities with those of a dedicated and successful teacher; his students have won more than 100 state, national, and international awards. Ekaterina Murina Awarded the title "Honored Artist of Russia" in 1981, Ekaterina Murina is chief professor and chair of piano at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, the oldest musical institution of higher education in Russia. In a repertoire that ranges from Bach to Rachmaninoff, her performances continue the traditions of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, where she also studied. Her first performance in St. Petersburg’s Large Philharmonic Hall took place in 1954 with the orchestra of Yevgeny Mravinsky. In 1956, she left the special music school of the Conservatory with a medal for excellent studies and entered the piano faculty, where she studied with the outstanding pianist P. Sirebryakov. In 1961, she graduated from the Conservatory and became a winner of All-Russia and All-Soviet Union music competitions (I and II awards). In 1959, she achieved III prize in the International Piano Competition. In 1964, she completed the Conservatory’s postgraduate course and was appointed as a teacher. During her many years at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, Murina has taught a number of famous musicians, laureates of international competitions, concert pianists, teachers at conservatories, accompanists of theaters and operas, and soloists of philharmonic societies. Her students have included Sergey Szhepkin, Veronica Reznikovskaya, Ji Min Lee (South Korea), Stanislav Gallina (Czecholslovakia), Viktoria Lakisova, Yuhan Langerpest (Finland), and Bian Men (China). Murina judges music competitions in Russia and abroad and has given master classes at conservatories in Russia, Germany, Finland, South Korea, and Scotland. She gives open lessons for delegations of teachers in such countries as the United States, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Korea. Robert Sherman Broadcaster, writer, teacher, and radio personality Robert Sherman is probably best known for his work at WQXR, the classical music radio station of The New York Times, where he has been program director and executive producer and where he is currently senior consultant. For 23 years he presided over the popular program The Listening Room. He continues to present The McGraw-Hill Companies’ Young Artists Showcase for the station, and has included on many recent occasions student performances taped in concert at Oberlin. He has hosted the Avery Fisher Career Grant Award presentations at Lincoln Center and the annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday specials from the Harlem School of the Arts since their inception. His multiple award-winning folk series, Woody's Children, is heard in New York on National Public Radio’s WFUV. On the faculties of Fordham University, the Juilliard School, and the Manhattan School of Music, Sherman has given seminars at Oberlin, Yale, the Eastman School, the University of Arizona, and the Mannes College of Music, where he is also a member of the board of directors. A former music critic for The New York Times, Sherman continues to write music columns for the Westchester and Connecticut sections of the paper. He published two books with Victor Borge, is the co-author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to Classical Music, and with his brother, Alexander Sherman, compiled a pictorial biography of their mother, the renowned pianist Nadia Reisenberg. He is on the advisory boards of many major cultural organizations and serves them variously as pre-concert lecturer, competition judge, panel moderator, and fund-raising emcee. Increasingly active as a concert narrator, he has performed with such ensembles as the Canadian Brass, the United States Military Academy (West Point) Band, the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and Philharmonia Virtuosi. Among his many performances are the world premieres of works written especially for him by Seymour Barab, William Mayer, Issachar Miron, and Soong Fu-Yuan.